In her recent book, Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology, Michelle Miller, Director of First Year Learning Initiatives and professor of psychological sciences at Northern Arizona University, lays out the myriad of issues that instructors need to consider when developing fully online courses or in using technology elements when teaching traditional face-to-face classes. In this presentation, Dr. Miller will guide instructors through the process of creating a syllabus for a cognitively optimized, fully online course. The presentation will offer practical strategies grounded in neuroscience and cognitive psychology theories on how to use multimedia effectively, how to take advantage of learner’s prior knowledge, how to motivate students to do their best work, how to promote retention of content through frequent low-stake testing and practice, and how to counteract cramming by establishing better spacing of study, among other strategies.